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Armour Day: Steel, spirit and the making of India’s Armoured Corps
Indian Army soldiers on tanks during a Army Day parade in New Delhi. (File photo)Every year on May 1, the Indian Army observes Armour Day – a commemoration of its Armoured Corps that is equal parts history, pride, and resolve. The date marks th...
Chennai startup ZUPPA supplies 500 ‘Made in India’ ‘Ajeet’ drones to Indian Army for modern battlefield operations
Chennai: A Chennai-based drone manufacturer, ZUPPA Geo Navigation Technologies, has supplied over 500 indigenously built unmanned aerial vehicles to the Indian Army over the past three months. The company described it as a milestone for domestically ...
Who was General Zorawar Singh? The ‘Lion of Ladakh’ who conquered the Himalayas
General Zorawar Singh Kahluria was one of the greatest military commanders in 19th-century India. Born in 1786 in the small hill kingdom of Kahlur in present-day Himachal Pradesh, he came from a Rajput family of the Kahluria clan – a lineage wi...
US submarine sinks Iranian frigate returning from India near Sri Lanka
IRIS Dena during her commissioning ceremony, in 2021. (Photo: Creative Commons/Wikipedia)New Delhi: A torpedo fired by a United States Navy fast-attack submarine has sent the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena to the bottom of the Indian Ocean south of Sri La...
India’s defence budget for FY 2025-26 hiked by 9.5% with focus on modernization and self-reliance
Nirmala Sitharaman before presenting the Union Budget 2025-26 before Parliament.New Delhi: The finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, announced a defence budget of ₹6.81 lakh crore for the fiscal year 2025-26, on Saturday, marking an increase of...
Fire & Fury Corps commander Lieutenant General Hitesh Bhalla unveils Shivaji statue at Pangong-tso, stirs controversy
The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj statue at Pangong-tso. (Photo: Indian Army)New Delhi: The Indian Army’s Fire & Fury (XIV) Corps has constructed a 9-metre-tall statue of the Maratha warrior-king Shivaji Bhonsale I, popularly known as Chhatra...
Indian light tank ‘Zorawar’ successfully completes high-altitude firing trials in Ladakh
A Zorawar light tank during firing trials in Ladakh. (Photo via special arrangement)New Delhi: India’s indigenously developed light tank, named Zorawar, has successfully completed high-altitude firing trials in Ladakh. This marks a significant ...
Zorawar light tank inches towards production line as DRDO successfully completes Phase 1 of its field tests
Zorawar light tank. (Photo via special arrangement.) Jodhpur/New Delhi: The Defence Research and Development Organization has successfully completed the first phase of field-firing trials for the Zorawar light tank. These trials, conducted ...
Defence sources say Indian Army’s ‘Zorawar’ light tanks for mountain warfare to be operational by 2027
Indian tanks in Ladakh. (Representational photo)New Delhi: The “Zorawar” lightweight tank for mountain warfare, which the defence ministry’s Defence Acquisition Council approved as a necessity for the Indian Army in December as ...
Defence ministry approves acceptance of necessity for 24 weapons, systems, and platforms, including ‘Zorawar’ light tank
Indian tanks in Ladakh. (Representational photo)New Delhi: The Defence Acquisition Council, headed by the defence minister, Rajnath Singh, has given its approval for acceptance of necessity (AoN) to acquire 24 different types of weapons, weapon syste...Results
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